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Animayo Gran Canaria’s high two winners this 12 months, one from Iran, one other Central American, contact on the identical theme that’s encapsulated in what a personality says in Guatemalan Pablo León’s 2D animated brief, “Bear in mind Us,” winner of the pageant’s finest brief movie of Spanish-Talking Nationality – Animation with Ñ.
“You struggle your wars twice, first within the battlefield, then in your reminiscence,” says the journalist in “Bear in mind Us” who chronicles three tales of the civil conflict that tore El Salvador aside for 12 years.
“Within the Shadow of the Cypress,” winner of Animayo’s Finest Worldwide Brief Movie prize, facilities on a conflict veteran scuffling with post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD) who takes out his pent-up rage on his daughter till one thing surprising washes up on the seashore earlier than their home.
With Animayo being the primary and solely animation pageant in Spain designated a qualifying pageant by the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, each shorts get a direct cross to compete for the Oscars in its brief movie classes.
Final 12 months, the Animayo Grand Jury prizewinner, Yegane Moghaddam’s Iranian stop-motion/2D hybrid brief “The Uniform,” was among the many 5 nominees shortlisted for the animated brief movie Oscar.
Disney animation legend John Musker (“The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin”), who served as jury president, praised “Within the Shadow of the Cypress” by Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani for its scenography, use of sunshine, script and story. Apart from profitable the Grand Jury Prize, it additionally took residence the perfect 2D Award.
For this nineteenth version held Could 8 to 11, 59 works competed in 4 Official Competitors sections: Worldwide, Animation with Ñ, Cinematics, videogames and commissioned movies, and the kids’s and younger individuals’s part, ‘My First Pageant.’
As all the time, it counted on the assist of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, the Society for the Promotion of the Metropolis of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Turismo Gran Canaria, the Basis of La Caja de Canarias, the Authorities of the Canary Islands and ICEX -Put money into Spain. The pageant additionally depends on the participation of a number of manufacturing firms, studios, colleges, and universities.
Winners of the nineteenth Animayo:
Worldwide Awards
Grand Jury Prize
“Within the Shadow of the Cypress,” Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani. Iran.
Finest 2D
“Within the Shadow of the Cypress”
Finest 3D
“Ruthless Blade,” Zhang Bo and Nicolas Nemiri. China.
Finest Cease Movement
“A Rapariga de olhos grandes eo Rapaz de pernas compridas,” Maria Hespanhol. Portugal.
Finest Screenplay
“Orage,” Benoît Michelet. France.
Finest Artwork Route
“Summer time 96,” Mathilde Bédouet. France.
Finest Pupil Brief Movie
“The Navel of the Moon,” Sara António, Julia Grupińska, Bokang Koatja, Tian Westraad, Ezequiel Garibay. Gobelins Faculty. France.
Finest Comedy
“Todo Bien,” Diana Acién Manzorro. Spain.
Finest VFX (Visible Results)
“Magnificence,” Aitana Belda, Aroa Celdrán, Carmen Castrelo, Carla Martinez and Lewis Sánchez. Spain, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull.
Finest Impartial Brief Movie
“To Hen or To not Hen,” Martín Romero. Spain.
Finest New Expertise
“O Estado de Alma,” by Sara Naves. Portugal, Spain.
Finest Social Brief Movie
“Raja,” Louisa Maria Würden and Franziska von Holst, Germany.
Finest Brief Movie of Spanish-Talking Nationality – Animation with Ñ
“Bear in mind Us,” Pablo León. Colombia, Guatemala, USA.
Jury’s Particular Point out in Spanish for Finest Social Consciousness
“Daisy,” Aditi Dixit, Shecid Domínguez Aguilera and Joffrey Atienza Zamora. Spain.
Jury’s Particular Point out in Spanish for Finest Artwork Route
“Magnificence,” Aitana Belda, Aroa Celdrán, Carmen Castrelo, Carla Martinez and Lewis Sánchez. Spain – La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull.
Cinematic, Spots and Music Movies
Finest Industrial / Commissioner
“G’day, the Brief Movie,” Michael Gracey, Australia.
Finest Music Movies
“Colmillo,” Tainy, J. Balvin, Younger Miko, Jowell & Randy’. Directed by Pau Carreté.. Canada, Spain.
Finest Video Sport Cinematics
“Magic: The Gathering, Daybreak of the Phyrexian Invasion”
Creator: Axis Studios, Wizards of the Coast, UK
Viewers Awards
Kids’s Viewers Award – ‘My First Pageant’
“Luke & the Lights,” Toby Cochran, Sascha Groen and Anjo Snijders. US, Netherlands.
Grownup Viewers Award
“The Navel of the Moon,” Sara António, Julia Grupińska, Bokang Koatja, Tian Westraad, Ezequiel Garibay. Gobelins Faculty. France.
Animation With Ñ
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